The teachers union proposes a top salary of $101,983. The teachers work 180 days a year. That comes to $566.57 per day. Assuming an eight-hour day (which they rarely work), that's $70.82 an hour. That is not counting annual benefits of $10,000-$12,000 per teacher. Not to mention the exorbitant pension program.

I value children's education and I value the job our teachers are doing, but they have to realize there are limits to anyone's value based on what people can pay.